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The Manhattan User’s Guide
takes on Zagat. A great article (interview with a former Zagateer, actually) about why snarky quotation and numeric assessment makes for lousy restaurant recommendation. Jason Kottke puts it rather well:

The new guide is “fairly creepy”, “equivocating”, and “supposedly pithy”, compiled by “majority rule”; use the Web instead of this “hornswoggling humbug”. “SooooEEEE.”